Wherever you are in the world, we warmly welcome you to...
Chester: A Virtual Stroll Around the Walls
What's New? October 2008:
 Major organisational site changes are just about done- www.bwpics.co.uk is now exclusively for The Black & White Picture Place's photography services and galleries, while this, www.chesterwalls.info is now the sole home of the Chester Virtual Stroll and its associated features. Adjust your bookmarks accordingly!
Inevitably, the changes will temporarily result in some duff links (including on search engines- our valued number one position on Google, for example!) which we're working hard to iron out- but we'd be most grateful if you could let us know about any you come across.... Automatic redirects have now been added to most of the main pages.
A new gallery featuring the much-loved Chester watercolours of Louise Rayner has just been added here. Much improved images- and many new additions- are now in our Old Maps of Chester section, especially our feature on John McGahey's wonderful 1855 View of Chester from a Balloon. A new gallery of photographs of notable burials in Chester's Overleigh Cemetery has been added here and a growing gallery of photographs has been added to our Vanished Pubs of Chester pages.
A rare opportunity has arisen to acquire a collection of original, signed photographs by the celebrated Liverpool master photographer Edward Chambré Hardman. Go here for details...
Whether resident or visitor- real or virtual- if you enjoy this online stroll around our beautiful city, consider joining us on one of our year-round real Chester Guided Walks..
In business in Chester? Help support us and do yourself a favour at the same time: advertise to the world on this website!
Get what you deserve! 'GoodHiding'- fine leather products handmade in Chester. |
"My very sincere congratulations on the development and presentation of your fantastically outstanding web site. For the last four hours, tears have stung my eyes at the sight of old familiar places that rekindled half forgotten emotions and memories both sad and happy. I have felt anger too at the vandalism of the developers, aided and abetted by councillors apparently, that have destroyed forever irreplaceable history in the name of progress and the accumulation of wealth. But I mustn’t get political; I really just wish to thank you for a most memorable afternoon, a time that I will no doubt repeat again and again in the future.
It has been thirty seven years since I said goodbye to Blighty, looking back from thirty thousand feet over the English Channel, and strangely since Christmas I have been tentatively formulating plans to return for a short holiday later this year. Deciding on doing a little research I logged onto Chester City Council and I discovered your truly great web site. Thank you".
Allan J Rimmer, Victoria, Australia 5th March 2006
"Hello, I'd just like to congratulate you on being the owner and author of the most wonderful site about Chester which I have encountered. It's bursting with information, images and enthusiasm and is incredibly detailed - fascinating and very useful!
I am a Chester resident myself- in Newton- and have long had an abiding affection for the city. Almost all my holidays have been (voluntarily!) taken within the UK and yet I always return to Chester. Your website reminds me why. It is a valuable resource - I've seen many Chester sites but none have come close.
Kate Fletcher 29/3/05
"Hello to all who created this page and to those who visit it. Today I was feeling melancholic thinking about the time I spent in Chester, so I decided to find something about it in the web and which was my surprise that I found you. I love Chester even more than my own city, I spent lovely moments there, every winter I was anxiously waiting for summer to come to go to Chester; its roman walls, its fantastic walks all along the river, its roads, its pubs, its parks, its shops, its cinemas where I saw many films, the Cathedral so beautiful, its castle, The Northgate Arena swimming pool, The zoo the best in Europe, its history and architecture, its people…Chester is always busy, many visitors enjoy it during the year. I loved to walk around town and look at everyone while I was waiting for the bus. To those who are going to visit it I assure you l will enjoy it. It is a very beautiful romantic, historic and shopping place.
Thanks for the site, it is a perfect work,
Lola, Madrid, Spain, July 2003.
"Thank you! I studied the Virtual Stroll pages while flying across the Atlantic and you can only imagine how much your information helped me enjoy my first visit to Chester. Walking the wall made a wonderful afternoon primarily because of the history you shared. Really, there were MANY things in your papers that I appreciated. I can't imagine walking the wall without those tips. Thank you again!
Geoff Gould, El Dorado Hills, California USA, June 2002
"Your site is truly wonderful. You do the marvelous old city of Chester full justice with your telling of her tale. Thank you for all that!"
Eric Hall, Philadelphia, USA (formerly of Liverpool) February 2007
"Our editors have selected your site as one of the best on the Internet when reviewed for quality, accuracy of content, presentation and usability... We know quality is always difficult to accomplish and maintain. Congratulations on being a selected member of the Britannica Internet Guide.
A virtual tour of the Roman and medieval city walls of Chester, England. Offers a detailed history, a description, drawings and photographs of the walls as well as of the buildings and sights of Chester that can be viewed from the walls. Highlights of the tour include the Cathedral, the Castle, the Roman Amphitheatre, and all the wall's gates. Designed for the armchair traveller or for the tourist who is planning a visit to Chester, A Virtual Stroll provides an elegant and engaging history of the city dating from Roman times to the present"
Encyclopaedia Britannica: February 2000
"Your website is wonderful. I have used it to answer various questions and just for interesting facts about the city. I and my colleagues have found it invaluable, very well organised and very easy to find information on it".
Chester Reference Library, Northgate Street, Chester May 2007
"An absolutely brilliant site about Chester and a sterling almost single-handed effort. Well deserving of funding (cos this is the sort of thing that attracts tourists, business etc)"
Review on the Chester Wiki
"This virtual strolling tour around the walls is beautifully photographed, the narration is detailed and interesting, and it doesn't shy away from some of Chester's darker sides. You will be hard pressed to find a more informative, or enjoyable, guide to the city and it's history."
Review on Chester City Council's 'Chester Portal'
Read what other visitors have had to say- some of our most recent letters are here...
Enter Chester: A Virtual Stroll Around the Walls
The above is a 'contents' page to help you find you way around and 'plan your route'. Visiting
our index first
may
help
you
find
what
you're
looking
for- or use Google at the bottom of the page to search either this site or the entire internet...
Our site
relies
upon
your
contributions, corrections and constructive criticism
to
keep
growing
and
to
stay
lively,
informative
and
up-to-date.
Your
comments and questions
are
very
welcome
and will
always
receive
a
reply-
as well as
perhaps appearing
on
our lively reader's
letters pages.
Vista? you must be joking!
click on the apple to find out why
|
Site and contents strictly ©
Steve
Howe
/
B&W
Picture
Place
1990-2008 |
|
